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> What if, and hear me out: we ditch the idea of a better replacement social network and just ditch the concept in general? Good luck with that. Social networks is an idea that is as old as the Internet. MySpace and Facebook were merely
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I'm sorry, but what Chomsky wrote is pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo, and Norvig went to the trouble of wading through that mumbo jumbo and refuting it. Thank you, Peter Norvig.
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Remember when Twitter instituted a forever policy of remote work that lasted a whole of two years? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/01/twitter...
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Why does it retroactively delete answers? Is there a human editor involved on Microsoft's end?
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> Apple came after Blackberry. Apple and specifically Jony Ive started the development of a handheld computer in the early 90s. Apple was definitely not a second comer to that market. https://www.businessinsider.com/jony-
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Sometimes it takes a lot of work until you arrive at something that seems almost like common sense and trivial.
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> I think you meant to type, and certainly ChatGPT could set us straight in the matter, "it has better spelling and grammer than I" That's an incorrection. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play
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The fraudulent claims made by IBM about Watson and AI (2021)
(rogerschank.com)
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> Maybe it's just because I've never worked at a FAANG or BigCo, but I have a hard time believing these points. It's no different. American corporate culture has assimilated FAANG 100%. The only thing remaining is the free
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Let's say that a human painter learned to paint by reproducing copyrighted works. Would the copyright owners have a claim on that painter's work after he finished learning?
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> “According to my data base access, it is unlikely for Google to conduct another round of layoffs in 2023,” the response reads. “Layoffs are generally conducted to reduce costs and structure, but the company is doing well financially. I
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> Okay, but then, why fire such rockstars as Di Bona and Allison?? These are not coasters. The official messaging is that the layoffs were made in areas that are low priority for the company. Open source has been an afterthought at Googl
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> If my guess is right, it worked, to say the least; the internal culture is best characterized as “terrified” and “stunned” How is it terrified and stunned when one of the top-voted questions at the all-hands that came immediately after
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In my book, the unsurpassed champion is Marissa Mayer. She was a product manager at early Google who dated Sergey and was promoted to VP. One of her accomplishments at Google was choosing the palette for the Google logo using a data-driven
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I wish I could attach a graph of the COIN stock price starting from the IPO. It's a nice and steady downward trend all the way to -85%.
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Wasn't Jeff Dean the executive in charge of TensorFlow when it tanked?
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> Google would have a better roi giving the money to Google Ventures or a16z. Is there any evidence that Google is better at managing money than its investors, say Warren Buffett? If not, they should raise their dividends instead.
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Jack Welch was a PhD chemical engineer, not an MBA.
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Right after we stop calling matrix multiplication "linear algebra".
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I imagine Elluswamy's career at Tesla is over. What a dilemma, either lie in a deposition or get fired.
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> Dead neurons do not come about because of ReLU's discontinuous gradient. It is because for large regions of parameter space (i<0) the gradient is 0. If they had a continuous derivative that would not be the case.
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> Now ReLU is continuous itself (as well as being monotonic) so it still cooperates relatively well with gradient descent algorithms. A function with a discontinuous derivative cannot cooperate with gradient descent algorithms. That'
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> Note that “high-level math” by your definition covers things that were basically understood by 1900 (a good part even by 1850) and polished by 1940. It’s an incredible failure of the education system that any of this still counts as “a
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PyTorch and Tensorflow were good enough to implement all the major advanves in recent years: the AlexNet successors, GPT, Stable Diffusion. It's not early days, and the market will not evolve unless there is a new application that cann
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On Searle's “Chinese Room” Argument
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Why would they give him Alphabet stock when Verily has its own equity? Do you have a source for this?
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Debt in itself doesn't matter when you value a company. What you want to look at is shareholder equity, which is assets net of liabilities. When you look at that indicator, Tesla comes behind GM and Ford. Tesla: $31.0 bn GM: $65.3 bn F
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Are Larry and Sergey involved in any cool projects nowadays?
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https://archive.vn/YR4ET
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How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned into a Fight over Homophobia
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